Rwandan thori round up and arbrarily taed over a dozen gay and transgenr people, sex workers, street children, and others the months before a planned June 2021 high-profile ternatnal nference.
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However, practice, lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people have reported facg stigma. In 2021, Human Rights Watch documented how the thori arbrarily taed ne transgenr or gay people at Gikondo trans center, Kigali.
(Nairobi) – Rwandan thori round up and arbrarily taed over a dozen gay and transgenr people, sex workers, street children, and others the months before a planned June 2021 high-profile ternatnal nference, Human Rights Watch said.
Interviews wh ne people who intified as transgenr or homosexual, three women who were taed wh their babi, four men who worked as street vendors at lol markets, and a 13-year-old boy livg on the streets Kigali, nfirmed that patterns of abe that Human Rights Watch documented prevly are ongog. People terviewed who intified as gay or transgenr said that secury officials acced them of “not reprentg Rwandan valu.
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Three other tae, who were held the “lquents’” room at Gikondo, nfirmed that fellow tae and guards more equently and vlently beat people they knew were gay or transgenr than others. Detentn of Gay and Transgenr People. The ne transgenr or gay people terviewed by Human Rights Watch were taed at Gikondo between December 2020 and April 2021.
Several said the police or lol secury officers taed them after members of the public reported seeg them wh their partners and other lbian, gay, bisexual, and transgenr (LGBT) people, or wearg women’s clothg if they were perceived not to be female. Transgenr and gay people terviewed scribed beg harassed, sulted, and beaten by secury officials durg their arrt and tentn. ” Another gay former taee who was arrted wh a group of transgenr people said a policeman beat his feet and told him he should be “rehabilated.
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